Nancy, your quilts are gorgeous! And so great that you're using fabrics to suppor women to make a living. Thanks for sharing the links.

Nancy, those are great! Great choices on the border fabrics too. They really bring out the personality in the embroideries. Clara

Thanks!
So you bought them at shows or from the website?

romira wrote:
Tambani (http://www.tambani.co.za) is a project where Vendi women create embroideries representing their folklore. The embroideries are beautiful, skillfully made and completely washable so can be used in any quilts. I think it's a great idea and I'm always looking for ways to use the embroideries. On several of the quilts, I combined these with fabrics batiked by people in Ghana through another fair trade initiative (http://anansevillage.com) where I also got the African beads used on one of the quilts. I also had some other African fabrics that I had picked up at different shows that I used, but since I found Ananse Village I will try to use more of their stuff.

Nancy

Nancy,
Wonderful! So colorful & cheery.
Tell me about the tambani embroidery?

Yea! I finished my Tambani Alzheimer's quilts and got all of my quilts registered. Adding my previously finished quilts, that makes 10 quilts I'll be sending in as soon as I get the email responses. Here are my 6 new quilts:


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I'll give you the particulars as soon as I get the quilt numbers.

Nancy

Quilting Marathon continues. Basic outline quilting done, next it is on to the background quilting. Clara

Thanks for the update, Clara! My little quilts are all quilted and I just have to put on 4 more bindings and they'll be ready to register. That should be finished this weekend, so I should meet the deadline. And if I miss it, I just won't look for my quilts in Houston. They'll still do good!

Congratulations, Limbania, on your new quilt! It is lovely and what fun to have the quilt that Rita made from your block.

Nancy

Congrats, Limbania. It a wonderful quilt

Thanks for sharing the link Clara! I signed up for updates. Working on a quilt that I hope to finish before the deadline, but in the meantime... I bought my first quilt Mod Spool  10828 - that's right, is one of yours Rita! Love what you did with one of "my" reels from the exchange. It's going to look grate in my sewing area

When you are ready to get on the email list. Here is the link.

http://www.alzquilts.org/aaqiupdate1.html

Clara

Thanks, Clara! I was rather figuring that the end of August would be a likely date. Guess I'll have to find out how to get on their mailing list. But first, I'd better get stitching on those little quilts!

Are you on the email newsletter list for AAQI? I just received the latest email and on it had a note about quilts that want to go to Houston and a deadline for submission for review. Sounds like entering into Houston too. Here is a copy of the email with that info.

"If you're making a Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt and have hopes for Houston, get it registered and in the mail by August 31st. That gives our volunteers 6 weeks to receive it, scan it, price it, tag it, and ship it from your house to Illinois, from Illinois to Michigan, and from Michigan to Texas."

Just finished up my quilt top with 8 more on it, got the dyes set, ironed, and basted. Time to quilt like mad for the deadline. So, who is in the race with me. Ok, it's not a race but you know what I mean. No losers here.

Clara

P.S. This will help keep me busy for when the boys go back to school next week which I was nervous about. Mainly because of being in the house all by myself with my thoughts. This will be very good for me. Whew.

Ann, Just keep checking in with us everyday. We'll do our best to try to bring a smile to your face once in a while.